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  • Ceasefire for Gaza Rally at Courthouse

    There’s a rally happening now (Saturday, Dec. 2) at the Santa Barbara Courthouse calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Looks to be about a hundred people or more gathering for a rally then a march through Santa Barbara, sponsored by the Central Coast Antiwar Coalition. “The Coalition calls on the Santa Barbara County Board of More

  • Op-Ed: Locals Urge SB County Supervisors to Pass a Ceasefire Resolution

    By the Central Coast Antiwar Coalition Residents of Santa Barbara, Goleta, Ojai and Ventura will deliver public testimony, Tues., December 5th, before the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, urging the elected officials to join other California cities to pass a resolution in support of a ceasefire. In early November, Santa Barbara county supervisors passed a “We More

  • Dos Pueblos High School Students Walkout in Support of Teachers

    Dos Pueblos High School students organized a walkout on Friday to demonstrate their solidarity with Santa Barbara Unified School District teachers who are engaged in a pay dispute with the administration. The students left during their first period and led a peaceful protest march to Girsh Park, approximately two miles away from campus. Student leaders More

  • City of Santa Barbara Launches Electric Vehicle Rebate Program

    Santa Barbara Clean Energy Customers eligible for rebate up to $1,000 Santa Barbara Clean Energy, the City’s program that supplies 100% carbon-free electricity to local homes and businesses, is announcing a cash rebate for City of Santa Barbara residents who purchase or lease a qualified electric vehicle (EV). This incentive is available now until the More

  • Micheltorena House Fire Displaces Couple and Baby

    Couple and their Baby Displaced Due to Fire on the 300 Block of E. Micheltorena. 4:50 p.m. on Tuesday night (12/05/23) a neighbor smelled burning electrical Vapors. She walked outside on to her porch and a neighbor’s house was showing smoke from outside. A fire apparently self-ignited near the kitchen stove in the 300 block More

  • Santa Barbara Man Arrested for Assaulting Grandfather Pushing Stroller in Calabasas

    The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) arrested a Santa Barbara man this week after he assaulted a grandfather pushing an infant in a stroller. Angel Sanchez Jr., 29 of Santa Barbara, has been arrested on two counts of assault. On Tuesday, December 5, the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff Station received two separate calls of unprovoked More

  • Wildlife Crossing at Gaviota Pass Receives State Funding

    Grant Enhances Connectivity Across Protected State Park Lands Along US 101 The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has been awarded $8 million to implement the Gaviota Pass Wildlife Connectivity and Vehicle Collision Reduction Project, aimed at mitigating wildlife-vehicle collisions and fostering connectivity between protected State Park lands flanking US 101. This initiative is part of More

  • Serious Traffic Collision at Haley and Salsipuedes

    Serious Traffic Collision on Tuesday (December 5) at Haley St. and N. Salsipuedes. 4:14 p.m. at East Haley Street and North South Salsipuedes, a white Nissan sedan traveling East towards Milpas Street ran a red light, striking a gray silver late model van. The van was traveling south on Salsipuedes St. and was then struck, More